Once in Autumn.......
Nekiah hand-stitched
every single leaf
to make Tree Spirit
costumes
for you and
your friend,
Isaac Blue Sky.
How could we know
back then
just how precious
were those fleeting
days of grace?
Just how fast
it all was
flying by?
First, you grew.
Before I knew it,
before I was ready,
you were
out of the nest
and away,
living all
of your heartbreaks
and hard times,
so young and heedless
and rash,
my hair slowly
turning
the color
of silvery ash.
Nekiah is gone.
It was cancer.
And Isaac Blue Sky's
life has been
fractured.
Those innocent faces
up there,
those round
trusting eyes
that enraptured,
those smiles
that had not yet
known pain........
remind me
that
once,
once in autumn,
we all lived
precious days
that will
not,
will not ever
come
again.
